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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Newts vs. Sphinx

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBTime Series DBMS based on CassandraOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.48
Rank#158  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#319  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score3.90
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitedgraph.iowww.esgyn.cnhsqldb.orgopennms.github.io/­newtssphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikisphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.EsgynOpenNMS GroupSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20162015200120142001
Current release2.7.2, June 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++, JavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
JavaC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored ProceduresJava, SQLnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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